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Network Latency on Virtual Machine

Slight network latency may cause application problem on sensitive virtual machines. Even the network responding time is just 3 or 7 ms. There is a way to improve the stability of responding latency – Enable RSS on NIC.

Network traffic is handled by single CPU core when RSS is disabled. Enable it will distribute the workload to 4 cores by default. You can increase CPU for RSS by change registry.